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Tag: improvisation

FLON: Hi, so Sea Of Poppies is a new project, right? How is it different than what you’ve done before, and what was the inspiration for exploring a new direction? MZ: Hi there! Yes, a brand new project, I just released my debut tape this June. The differences are quite big, since my last project, […]

FLON: How long has Ratskin Records been around, and what was the impetus for starting a label? MD: Ratskin has been around on and off since the beginning of 2005. The first three to four years were pretty sporadic in terms of releases, but has gradually escalated in terms of frequency of releases. It was […]

All Data Lost is a new music festival in Raleigh, NC focused on experimental, Avant-garde and Noise Music. SPOOKSTINA, one of the founders describes it thus: Charles Ovett (Joules, Dallas Thrasher) and I have played many fests together both in and out of NC over the past couple of years, and we wanted to join […]

FLON: How long have you been making music and what led you to work with synthesizers? MENG QI: I’ve been making music for about 17 years, in fact, I stopped in the middle for quite a long time, then started working with synthesizer. The choice of using synthesizers, from the very beginning, was due to […]

FLON: So let’s let folks who haven’t seen you live get a sense of what you do. Can you describe your set-up, instrumentation and performance Spookstina: My performance centralizes around creating and decaying sounds and textures. It’s an improvised performance, and with the exception of a cassette tape here and there (generally of nature sounds […]